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<blockquote data-quote="Veritas" data-source="post: 631218" data-attributes="member: 43870"><p>I am looking at 550-ish. I want if possible to buy from a private party or at least from a store that will verify shutter count. Most of the stores I am aware of won't do that. Maybe there are some smaller ones that will. I have no problem with someone making a profit but I want to try to maximize the odds that the camera was well cared for. I have had bad luck with "refurbs." I have never bought one directly, but a couple of times with electronics, once with a super expensive IPS monitor that was DOA, the equipment was replaced with refurb and the refurbs all had problems. I actually had to return the monitor 5 times before I got a model that did not fail within a matter of weeks. So my thinking is that if someone bought a camera with a problem and sent it back, a tech checks it out and it is back on the shelf as a refurb but the problem could easily be missed if it isn't replicated easily. That could even happen with the camera I just bought and returned. The yellow splodge in images only occurred about 10% of the time and in a certain mode. And practically speaking, the camera looked to be in mint condition. So hence my desire to try to buy something from a private party.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Veritas, post: 631218, member: 43870"] I am looking at 550-ish. I want if possible to buy from a private party or at least from a store that will verify shutter count. Most of the stores I am aware of won't do that. Maybe there are some smaller ones that will. I have no problem with someone making a profit but I want to try to maximize the odds that the camera was well cared for. I have had bad luck with "refurbs." I have never bought one directly, but a couple of times with electronics, once with a super expensive IPS monitor that was DOA, the equipment was replaced with refurb and the refurbs all had problems. I actually had to return the monitor 5 times before I got a model that did not fail within a matter of weeks. So my thinking is that if someone bought a camera with a problem and sent it back, a tech checks it out and it is back on the shelf as a refurb but the problem could easily be missed if it isn't replicated easily. That could even happen with the camera I just bought and returned. The yellow splodge in images only occurred about 10% of the time and in a certain mode. And practically speaking, the camera looked to be in mint condition. So hence my desire to try to buy something from a private party. [/QUOTE]
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